he simply thought of this legitimate use of the taxing power. i think the second and third are more important. the second and third -- the second is that john roberts sought health care, as many people saw help care, is the third in a trilogy of cases concerning what bush v. gore in 2000 from the citizens united in 2010, upon the care in 2012. and in those first two cases come to you at five republican justices -- and dreams of democrats and was seen too many is a very partisan case. as they sat down to vote on health care, it looks like the same thing was going to have them. the five republican nominees were going to trash a democratic dream. roberts recoiled at that idea. roberts is a very keen sense of politics in the larger sense and he knew and cared deeply that the supreme court not be regarded as simply another branch of congress, where democrats and republicans pay. he wanted the court to be seen if at all possible i somewhat elevated from that sort of discourse. but as a third reason, worth remembering the republican conservative agenda